The importance of a single letter.

It doesn't matter what your part in the great scheme of IT is. The importance of a single letter is more powerful than any politics, programming or system maintenance. The most powerful word in the English language is a single letter. The letter "I". That however is just the English language and there are many different languages. There are the languages of the world and there are the languages of computing. It is in the languages of computing that a single letter can make a difference between a two second quickie and a week of painful frustration. Whether you are programming, configuring or just entering data a single letter can make the difference between right and wrong, good and bad, a saving of time or a loss of money. So if you are having a problem it is most probably a single letter somewhere that is causing it. Unfortunately they are the hardest to find as our minds have an automatic error correction where we fill in the blanks with what we are reading. As an emplaxe waht I wirte is udnrestndbale as long as the first and last letters are in the right place. This is often the reason why we miss that single letter when we are trying to find the solution to a problem. So whether you are debugging a program, configuring a server or just entering data make sure that your spelling is correct and never underestimate the importance of a single letter.

I've always been fascinated with graphics and wrote my first drawing program on the venerable apple ][e. After discovering the x86 IBM clones and wrangling my way into the computer industry I'm now immersed in work as a System Administrator, OS builder (linuxfromscratch) and general technohead.